Of the advancement and proficience of learning; or, The partitions of sciences· Nine books. Written in Latin by the most eminent, illustrious, and famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam, Vicount St. Alban, Councellor of Estate, and Lord Chancellor of England. Interpreted by Gilbert Watts.
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Of the advancement and proficience of learning; or, The partitions of sciences· Nine books. Written in Latin by the most eminent, illustrious, and famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam, Vicount St. Alban, Councellor of Estate, and Lord Chancellor of England. Interpreted by Gilbert Watts.
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Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
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Oxford :: printed by Leon Lichfield printer to the University, for Robert Young and Edward Forrest,
1640.
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Science -- Methodology -- Early works to 1800.
Logic -- Early works to 1800.
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"Of the advancement and proficience of learning; or, The partitions of sciences· Nine books. Written in Latin by the most eminent, illustrious, and famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam, Vicount St. Alban, Councellor of Estate, and Lord Chancellor of England. Interpreted by Gilbert Watts." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A72146.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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THE PARABLE. XXVI. Make no friendship with an angry man;* 1.1 nor walke thou with a Furious Man.
THE EXPLICATION.
BY how much the more devoutly the Lawes of Friend∣ship amongst good men, are to be kept and observed, by so much the more it stands us upon to use all Caution, even at first in a prudent election of Friends. In like manner the disposition and humours of Friends, so far as concernes our personall interest, should by all meanes be dispensed withall: but when they impose a necessity upon us, what quality of Persons wee must put on, and sustaine; it is a very hard case and an unreaso∣nable condition of Friendship. Wherefore according to Salo∣mons Precept, it principally conduceth to Peace, and Safety in the course of this world, that we intermingle not our affaires
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with Cholerique natures, and such as easily provoke and un∣dertake Quarrels and Debates; for such kinde of Friends will daily espouse us to Factions and Contentions; that we must of necessity be forced to break off all termes of Friend∣ship; or else be wanting to our own personall safety.